Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Sundown towns in Oklahoma" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ada, Oklahoma; B.
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Sundown towns in Oklahoma (13 P) Sundown towns in Oregon (3 P) T. Sundown towns in Tennessee (2 P) Sundown towns in Texas (10 P) W. Sundown towns in Wisconsin (6 P)
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
From Route 66 to the storied history of several Native American tribes, here's a look at WorldAtlas' picks for towns enjoying Oklahoma's slower pace.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
Sheboygan at one time was thought to have sundown laws that were prevalent in the 1880s to 1960s. ... up to 10,000 "sundown towns" existed across the United States between 1890 and 1960, ...
"Oklahoma Municipal Government" from the Oklahoma Almanac published by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries is the source document for this list. Additional communities have been added using Wikipedia articles which cite authoritative sources. Geographic coordinates, if known, are provided for those place names which are unlikely to be communities.